| 释义 |
run up
intransitive verb
: to grow rapidly : shoot up
< his debts ran up alarmingly by the week >
transitive verb
1. : to increase by bidding : bid up
< professional traders had run the price up >
2. : to stitch quickly
< to run up a seam >
< to run up a dress in a morning >
3. : to erect hastily
< run up an apartment house >
< run up a circus tent >
4. : to add (a column of figures) rapidly
5. : to shuffle (the pack) so that certain combinations of cards shall come out in desired order
6. : to operate (an aircraft engine) at a high rate of speed either in a stationary aircraft or on a test stand in order to test, check, or warm the engine |